Acting Secretary General of the Ministry of Interior Georgi Kandev announced that since the beginning of election day, 93 reports have been filed and 8 pre-trial proceedings have been initiated for crimes against the political rights of citizens. All submitted reports are monitored in real time.
Kandev provided up-to-date information regarding the conduct of election day. According to him, 15,408 police officers are engaged in election security, all of whom are employed in the section election commissions.
Regarding some of the online reports that are submitted, he commented that the story is not always the one that is presented on the web. "Nevertheless, we check every single report submitted, regardless of whether it was received by us on paper, by e-mail, online or broadcast on social networks. We have special officers who monitor all social networks and all signals that are submitted in real time," Kandev said.
He also commented on several disturbing cases from last night. "In the Blagoevgrad region last night, a signal was submitted to 112 that a car in which a candidate for People's Representative was riding was being pressed and threatened by two large jeeps with people in it. The signal was responded to immediately, and the persons who were riding in the jeeps were identified and they were detained in the Second District Police Station in Blagoevgrad," he said.
"Also in the Blagoevgrad region, in the village of Mikre, a signal was received that a man and a woman were threatening witnesses in pre-trial proceedings for vote buying. The signal was responded to immediately, and the persons who made the threats were identified. The same are detained in the Sandanski Regional Administration", commented Kandev.
"And today we will fight uncompromisingly with all violations and crimes, not only in connection with the elections, but also with all crimes fixed in the Criminal Code", said the acting chief secretary of the Ministry of Interior.